“What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals.

The overheard conversations involved no illegal activity by anybody of the Trump associates, or anyone they were speaking with. In short, the only apparent illegal activity was the unmasking of the people in the calls.”

Now that we know the Obama Administration was unmasking NSA-gathered intelligence on American citizens, and illegally distributing it, the Democrats' 'Russia Strategy' has been exposed.

Democrats have been trying to convince us Donald Trump had 'inappropriate' contact with Russians, but the only thing they've actually been able to expose is questionable Russian contacts by other Democrats.

Blogger Pap at AmericanThinker.com came up with a list of 'Russia questions' the Republicans in Congress should be asking Democrats now. Read Pap's comment below.

Why are the leaders of our urban centers declaring their communities Sanctuary Cities? They're openly defying federal law and assisting criminals, all to the detriment of the law-abiding citizens who fund them.

Blogger Wrabble thinks the answer is that Democrats are in league with the Drug Cartels.

It's an explosive idea, sure, but it would certainly explain some of the Progressive immigration lunacy we've been witnessing the last few years.

Read Wrabble's interesting theory in this comment left at WashingtonTimes.com.

Meanwhile, the media has demanded no proof about the Russia nonsense, for which no evidence has been produced after almost a year of fishing by the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign (one and the same).

It is clear what happened. The Obama administration used the Russia ruse as an excuse to conduct surveillance on the campaign of the opposing party's presidential candidate.

The real story here—and it's frustrating, to say the least, that it is not emphasized—is that the actions of Attorney General Lynch, in dramatically relaxing the dissemination of raw surveillance data in the last few weeks of the Obama administration, cannot possibly have been anything but an act intended to unmask the identities of Trump et al. to the public.

Of course the media would rather commit mass suicide than investigate that crime.

Here’s how I see it. There were illegally obtained intercepts of Trump communications (call them wiretaps, or intercepts, or whatever).

They show Trump did nothing wrong but they can be used to continue to push the narrative ‘Trump was involved with the Russians to hack the election’ and keep the Trump administration mired in a haze of innuendos and suspicion thereby damaging his administration.

It was reported January that one of Obama's last executive orders included dissemination of NSA intelligence without restrictions of personally identifiable information? How is that not front and center in this discussion?

How can so many unambiguous statements be contrary to common sense and be refuted days or hours later and it not be concluded that EVERYONE involved is a fearless liar.

One still does not understand how a government employee, can handle and transmit classified material through an unauthorized and insecure communications system, without being prosecuted and punished for doing so?

Anyone who is authorized to handle security information, must receive a clearance to do so and understand the requirements for handling classified material. There is no acceptable excuse for disclosing classified material, once a person is cleared to handle classified material!